A day after the New York Knicks ended a 53-year drought in the NBA, the Carolina Hurricanes They followed his example and They won the NHL Stanley Cup two decades after their previous title. They beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 in game six. In this way they turned the series around. They were 2-1 down and then won three games in a row and made it 4-2.
A goal by Taylor Hall in the first period and another by Jackson Blake in the second gave the Hurricanes an advantageinsurmountable for the Golden Knights (in their third final in their nine years of existence) who did not shoot on goal for almost 19 minutes. Nikolaj Ehlers scored with a goal into an empty net.
“It was our moment. We weren’t going to let them deny us. When that puck went in with an empty net (3-0), we started to win the cup, but you never want to get lost in the celebration because you have to finish the games. I’m just extremely proud of this group,” he said Rod Brind’Amour, Hurricanes coach since the 2018-19 season. In 2006 he was the captain who lifted the Stanley Cup for those from Carolina.
Brind’Amour is the seventh coach to win the NHL after having done it before as a player in the same franchise and the fourth as captain. Since he took the reins of the team, the club has added 441 victories between the regular season (378) and playoffs (63), but it was not fully fueled when the decisive games arrived.
Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal with the trophy.LAPRESSE
Jordan Staal, the captain of the champion team, took the Conn Smythe Trophy that recognizes to the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs. equalized an NHL record by scoring in each of the first five of the finals. At 37 years old, he is the oldest player to achieve this award. He already won it with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009. Now, he repeats it 17 years later and beats the record of Also, of whom he won the Trophy for the second time with the longest time span plus Chris Chelios who won it twice with a span of 16 years (1986-2002).
The Hurricaneswho were born in 1979 as the Hartford Whalers and moved to North Carolina in 1997, only lost three games on their way to the Stanley Cup. They beat the Ottawa Senators in four games in the first round of the Eastern Conference and eliminated the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of the Eastern Conference.
They beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games in the Eastern Conference Final before winning the final in six games against the Golden Knights.
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